Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Sweet B - CVE-2022-23002
Published: August 3, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU65995
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23002
CWE-ID: CWE-703
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Western Digital
Affected software:
Sweet B
Sweet B
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the resulting output is not properly reduced modulo the P-256 field prime and is invalid when compressing or decompressing a point on the NIST P-256 elliptic curve with an X coordinate of zero. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-23002
Install updates from vendor's website.